I’m a public defender. My clients would rather go to jail than register as sex offenders.

[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]

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“But I realize now that many of my clients would choose to take on more jail time, more fees — anything to avoid being labeled a sex offender for life. That’s because our current sex offender registration laws apply an unbending and inhumane one-size-fits-all approach that does not prevent future sex crimes and in fact makes us all less safe.”

Read the article by Rachel Marshall at vox.com.

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